Please Read This Before Ordering 
Washington customers must include 3% 
sales tax, unless bulbs are purchased for re- 
sale, in which ease give us your State Nursery 
License number when ordering. 
TERMS—Please do not send us orders for 
less than $1.00. We even lose money on a 
$1.00 order, but will fill them as an accommo- 
dation to our customers. On orders of $5.00 or 
over, you may, if you desire, enclose 25% 
with order and the balance before shipment 
is to be made, or shipment can be made COD 
for the balance. 
DISCOUNTS—We do not make certain dis- 
counts for certain sized orders. We feel that 
our bulbs are well worth the price asked. 
However, we do give valuable extras with all 
orders, the larger the order the more extras. 
And this vear, in celebration of our Twentieth 
Anniversary as a commercial gladiolus grow- 
er, we are going to be especially liberal, as a 
sort of dividend to our many loyal customers. 
Just write on your order whether you would 
like extra count of varieties ordered, or give 
us a list of the varieties you would like to 
try, and we will give you as many of them as 
we can. 
TRANSPORTATION COSTS — This year 
all prices in this catalog are prepaid. You 
know just what your bulbs are going to cost 
you when you buy them. In many eases trans- 
portation costs will run as high as half the 
cost of the bulbs. But, if you want to assume 
transportation charges, just say so on your 
order, and we will ship parcel-post COD for 
postage, or express collect, and we will in- 
clude extra bulbs for DOUBLE the amount of 
the charges on your order, These bulbs will 
be in addition to any other extras we include. 
SHIPMENTS—Please let us make ship- 
ment as we think best, either by parcel-post 
or express. Eastern orders will be sent out by 
parcel-post as soon as danger of freezing in 
the mail is past. Pacific coast orders can be 
sent out at any time 
ORDER EARLY — Each year we receive 
many orders late in the season that we are un- 
able to fist completely because some varieties 
are sold out early. While we have quite large 
stocks of many varieties—of several we have 
the largest stock in the U.S.—large wholesale 
orders will sometimes cut them down quite 
rapidly. 
NON-WARRANTY — In common with all 
financially responsible growers, we make the 
following non-warranty: We give no warran- 
ty, express or implied, and will not be in any 
way responsible for the results of planting or 
forcing of any bulbs or bulblets we send out. 
We will replace, or refund, any bulbs found 
untrue to name, and will attempt to adjust to 
the satisfaction of the customer any just com- 
plaint, but in no case will we be held respon- 
sible beyond the actual purchase price of the 
bulbs. 
COMPLAINTS—Sure we make mistakes! 
Sometimes as many as three or four a vear, 
but when you stop to consider that we have 
sold as high as four million bulbs a year, with 
as many as 30 employees handling them—I 
feel that we have a mightly high batting 
average. I have been satisfying our customers 
for 20 years, and expect to do so for another 
20 years. And, if you should find anything 
wrong when you receive your bulbs, or at 
blooming time, just let me know at once, and 
I will do everything possible to keep you 
happy. 
SUBSTITUTIONS—We will not substitute 
varieties without your permission. However, 
unless asked not to do so, we will send equal 
value in a larger or smaller size, if sold out 
of the size ordered. Late in the season, I 
suggest that you give us one or two varieties 
for substitutes in case we are sold out of a 
variety ordered. 
Due to different types of soil and climatic conditions many varieties of glads 
will show a deeper or lighter shade, or will have more or less flecking, from year 
to vear. Picardy is a variety that is especially variable from year to year and 
from locality to locality. Last summer almost all of our white varieties showed 
a great deal of bright pink flecking, especially Maid of Orleans. As a rule, clay 
soils will give deeper shading than sand. 
If I were selecting an assortment of varieties from this catalog for exhibition 
purposes, I would inelude at least some of the following. Most of these have 
been big blue ribbon winners at recent shows throughout the country. 
Aladdin, Atlas, Beacon, Bit O’Heaven, Black Opal, Early Rose, Garden of 
the Nations, Golden Chimes, Greta Garbo, Hindenburg’s Memory, Jalna, Jeanie, 
J.S. Bach, King Lear, Margaret Beaton, Marguerite, Miss New Zealand, Mrs. 
Mark’s Memory, Myrna, New Era, Pfitzer’s Masterpiece, Peggy Lou, Sensation, 
Shirley Temple, Snow Prineess, Surfside, Takina, Vista Bonita, and Zuni. 
